The Royal Historical Society has awarded its 2013 Martin Lynn Scholarship to first-year doctoral student George Roberts. This is a highly prestigious and very competitive award, open to students working in the field of African History, which will be used to support George's PhD research on the Cold War in post-independence Dar es Salaam.

George's project is supervised by Professors David Anderson and Daniel Branch. Details are contained in his e-portfolio.

The Royal Historical Society's Rees Davies Prize for 2013 has been awarded to Mara Gregory (MA in History of Medicine 2012-13) for her dissertation ‘“Beamed Directly to the Children”: School Broadcasting and Sex Education in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s’. The dissertation was supervised by Dr Mathew Thomson.

Judges’ citation: This highly accomplished thesis analyses the production, content and reception of sex education broadcasts by the BBC during the 1960s and 1970s. The author explores these programmes and the controversy they generated as a lens onto wider social debates about sexual behaviour, the ‘permissive society’ and ideas about childhood...

Congratulations to the prize-winning undergraduate students of the History Department for their excellent academic performances in 2013/14:

• First Year UG 'Beaumanoir-Hart' History Prize for Best Overall Performance
  Joanne Young (History)
• First Year Making History Project Prize
  Anna Wilson (History and Politics) for the project 'How Present was the Threat of Nuclear War in the Everyday Lives of British Children in the Early to Mid-1960s?'
• First Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
  Will Britton-Minney (CAS)
• Second Year UG History Prize for Best Overall Performance
  Reece Decastro (History)
• Second Year UG CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
  Ella Passingham (CAS)
• Final Year UG 'Iain Smith' History Single-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
  Alice Bennington (History with Year Abroad)
• Final Year UG 'Roger Magraw' History Joint-Honours Prize for Best Overall Performance
  Holly Winter (History and Politics)
• Final Year UG 'Chris Clark' CAS Prize for Best Overall Performance
  Sam Underwood (CAS)
• Final Year UG Long Essay Prize
  Lewis Smith (History and Politics Year Abroad), for the essay 'A Vast Stage of the Possible: Space and Radical Protest in Western Europe, 1960-1982'
• Felix Dennis UG Dissertation Prize
  Oliver Hirst (History with Year Abroad), for the dissertation 'Mapping the Unknown: the Geographical and Iconographical Representation of the New World in Sixteenth-century European Cartography'

Details of all of the departmental prizes and past winners can be found on the Student Prizes webpages.
 

 
Professor David Anderson of the History Department has been awarded a Faculty of Arts Research Impact Award 2014. The awards were presented on 3rd July 2014 by Professor Simon Swain, Chair of the Faculty of Arts and Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Arts and Social Sciences.

Introduced in 2011, these awards recognize those individuals who have undertaken public engagement with the intention of achieving the greatest possible impact in innovative or interesting ways, rather than recognizing the achievement of impact itself.

 
Dr Claudia Stein has been awarded the European History Quarterly (EHQ) 2013 Prize for the article 'Images and Meaning-Making in a World of Resemblance: The Bavarian-Saxon Kidney Stone Affair of 1580'.